This is it; The next few weeks and through July both the House and Senate committees drafting legislation for health care reform will be releasing details of their plans and holding hearings and mark ups (allowing amendments and such to the proposals). These committees include the Health Education and Labor and Pensions (HELP) and Finance Committees in the Senate, and the Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor Committees in the House.

Congress is hard at work to bring health care reform to fruition. However, today House Republicans released their health plan which may not actually be eligible to be called a plan :

House Republicans presented a four-page outline of their health care reform plan Wednesday but said they didn’t know yet how much it would cost, how they would pay for it and how many of the nearly 50 million Americans without insurance would be covered by it.

The “non-plan” seems like more of a collection of talking points:

On the whole, the plan does very little to cover the uninsured, protect individuals from predatory insurance practices or extend coverage to more Americans. The draft “encourages states to use new and existing programs to guarantee all Americans, regardless of pre-exising conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable coverage” and helps Americans eligible for employer-based plans to enroll in coverage.